Quotes About Patience

With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits.

I am patiently waiting for the singularity.

To get education to sink deep into the minds of a nation takes a generation and more.

My older sister has four kids and I honestly don't know how she does it.

Sometimes I just walk through; I just show up, as in The Other Sister.

If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say.

One thing that has helped me to become patient and cool is that I grew up with sisters.

My sisters take, like, hours to get ready, and I'm, like, really quick. I think I get that from my dad.

My father always told my sisters and me that once you succeed, people will automatically be quiet. And he was right.

The time you are happy to sit on the bench, is the time you should retire in my opinion.

I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.

Once I finish shooting a film, I usually sit on it to see how we can make it better.

When you become of age, you can sometimes feel like you have to force maturity. I've been lucky that I didn't feel that I had to try. Growth is something that is going to come, you just need to sit back and let it happen naturally.

When I'm not acting, I'm writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the shelf, I just keep stacking them up.

I do think - I always tell that to young people - go to college, do theater, work with an audience. Don't try to learn how to act in front of millions and millions of people. Don't make that your first ambition, to be on a sitcom or get into the movies. Learn who you are as an actor, and the best way to do that is to do it in front of an audience.

It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.

Any success I have had has not happened overnight; the journey has never felt like me sitting in the back of a limousine sipping champagne. It has always been more like riding up a hill on a pushbike, and the chain has come off.

I've found that sitting around and obsessing about projects moving forward, when there's actually nothing I can do about it, at a certain point, is really counter-productive.

I remember the days of sitting at book signings, playing with my pen when no one would come, and still I even then thought I was living the dream, because I had a book out.

Perhaps he wanted to be alone with Dr. G., who was here, but he should have let me know. At Hoffmann's I felt I was sitting on hot coals, expecting him to arrive every moment.

I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

You can't just get in a boat with someone and be great straight away. It takes a lot of time to get used to each other. You need to learn how the other person reacts to certain situations.

I'm a peace-maker, I can fit into a lot of situations. I'm pretty easygoing. I have a lot of patience.